[TUHS] The origin of /home

[Grant Taylor]

On 09/28/2018 02:00 PM, Nemo wrote:
> From 
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/E29492/userconcept-36940.html#userconcept-6 
> :
> 
> A home directory can be located either on the user's local system or on 
> a remote file server. In either case, by convention the home directory 
> should be created as /export/home/username. For a large site, you should 
> store home directories on a server. Use a separate file system for each 
> /export/homen directory to facilitate backing up and restoring home 
> directories. For example, /export/home1, /export/home2.
> 
> Regardless of where their home directory is located, users usually access 
> their home directories through a mount point named /home/username. When 
> AutoFS is used to mount home directories, you are not permitted to create 
> any directories under the /home mount point on any system. The system 
> recognizes the special status of /home when AutoFS is active.

Yep, that jives with what I thought.

"… by convention the home directory should be created as 
/export/home/username … users usually access their home directories 
through a mount point named /home/username …"

Yep, that jives with my experience and my understanding.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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